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the whole thing into a park it
would probably have the effect
of destroying our retail business,” Meyer said, noting that
his business largely serves older clientele.
Meyer said the drapery fabric
his business sells is heavy and
bulky – not something that a customer could easily walk to a parking deck blocks away.
Meyer is not the only one who
is concerned about business. Lee
Shaffer, office manager of InfantParent Institute at 328 N. Neil St.,
said she does not like the idea and
that it actually made her angry.
“When I fi rst found out, I
turned red,” Shaffer said.
She said she is concerned
about deliveries to her business,
as the institute has office supplies
delivered regularly. Without the
parking lot in close proximity,
she said the delivery person
would need to park a block away
and carry the deliveries to the
institute.
Shaffer also said the parking

BY NYAJAI ELLISON
STAFF WRITER

Several downtown Champaign
storeowners are concerned that
their businesses may be negatively affected if the city goes
through with tentative plans to
transform a parking lot between
Neil and Washington streets into
a plaza.
Lacey Rains Lowe, planner for
Champaign’s planning department, said the city might hire a
firm to help generate public input
as to what they would like to see
in the space where the current
parking lot sits.
David Meyer, owner of Meyer
Drapery at 330 N. Neil St., said
he is worried that the removal of
the parking lot will put an end to
his business.
“If they actually converted

lot is constantly being used, and
removing it will make it harder
for business to be conducted.
While Shaffer continues to be
an advocate for her business,
Terri Mason, manager of Studio
Helix at 324 N. Neil St., said she
doesn’t mind the idea to a certain extent.
“We are not objecting to the
park in total; however, we want
to make sure that we do not lose
our handicap access parking and
at least one row here in front of
our building.”
Studio Helix is a wellness, fitness and massage therapy institution. Mason said about a third
of their 130 clients are unable
to walk a long distance, which
means they would not be able
to access the building if Studio
Helix were to lose all of its parking out front.
“On any given day we have a
minimum of three to five people
walk in that front door either in
wheel chairs or with a walker or
with canes, and they can bare-

ly get over the concrete curb so
there’s no way they can come up
through the back where there is
three steps.”
Mason says she wants to be a
corporative entity with the city,
but she wants to make sure that
she gets what her business needs
in the end.
While many are worried about
their business being negatively
affected, Anna Ober, general
manager of Destihl at 301 N. Neil
St., said she thinks it could affect
business in a good way.
“It could be a positive thing if
it is utilized in a way that brings
more people downtown,” she
said. “It would be nice to have
more areas down here that will
draw consistent presence, and I
think it could really help the businesses down here.”
Lowe said the city of Champaign would most likely come to
a final decision by spring 2014.

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brought consequences of second
and third order.
“This ought to remind people
that it is very unlikely that anything we do in a limited way is
going to be limited in the way we
prefer,” said Pillar, who now teaches at Georgetown University in the
nation’s capital.
Obama was asked about the
potential for escalation at a press
conference Friday in the Russian
city of St. Petersburg. He attempted to downplay the chances but
seemed to be making the point that
anything can happen.
“Is it possible that Assad doubles
down in the face of our action and
uses chemical weapons more widely? I suppose anything is possible,
but it would not be wise,” Obama
said. “At that point, mobilizing the
international community would be
easier not harder.”
Syria has many ways to respond
to an attack. The Assad regime
could strike back directly or
through proxies.
Israelis have been stocking
up on gas masks, fearing an outside chance that Assad could feel

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WASHINGTON — With President Barack Obama lobbying Congress to agree to the United States’
punishing Syria for alleged use of
chemical weapons, he must convince wary lawmakers that Syria’s response won’t lead to tit-fortat retaliation that escalates the
conflict.
Obama has repeatedly vowed
a targeted attack won’t seek to
oust President Bashar al-Assad
or aid the rebels. But the use of
force often brings unintended
consequences.
“Anyone who claims to have a
crystal ball here doesn’t,” warned
Paul R. Pillar, a former senior CIA
official with responsibilities in the
Middle East. “This does stir the pot
in ways that increase the risk or
chance of certain things happening, even though one can’t place
specific odds on it or make a specific prediction.”
Pillar and other experts scoff
at the notion of a surgical hit, noting that military forays into Iraq,
Libya and Afghanistan have all

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After years without a permanent place to play, the Marching
Illini will have an artificial turf
field to practice on by fall 2014.
Barry Houser, director of
the Marching Illini and Athletic Bands, said the Marching Illini, which has been on this campus since 1868, has never before
had an official practicing space.
The project is a among
between Campus Recreation,
University Housing and the College of Fine and Applied Arts,
said Director of Campus Recreation Robyn Deterding. The
field will be at the intersection of
Gregory Drive and First Street,
where there is currently a grass
field that is used for intramural
sports practice. Because of the
new buildings in the Ikenberry
Commons, University Housing
needs a retention pond and was
considering building it under
the fields, Deterding said.
“If they’re (going to) tear up
the fields and put them back in
place, (I thought) we’d put more
turf fields down because we can
get so much more use out of
them,” she said.
Campus Recreation has set
aside about $3 million to pay
for the field. Deterding said this
money comes largely from student fees, as well as the revenue
Campus Recreation generates
from factors such as extra membership and rentals of facilities.
She added that the field is
expected to last about eight
years, and Campus Recreation
is working with the College of
Fine and Applied Arts to come
up with a plan in which they help

pay for maintaining and replacing the turf.
The Marching Illini will hold
classes and practice on the turf.
Campus Recreation will organize renting out the field for any
other organizations that wish to
use the field.
“It’s good for housing, it’s
good for Campus Rec members,
and it’s good for the campus,”
Deterding said.
For the Marching Illini, having a permanent playing field
means having peace of mind,
Houser said.
In previous years, the Marching Illini has rotated between
fields for practice, including
the fields behind the Business
Instructional Facility and Huff
Hall. Marching on gravel fields
has caused health problems in
the past, Houser said, as many
students have rolled their ankles
while playing on gravel.
“The health and well-being of
our students, that’s ultimately
going to be fantastic,” Houser
said.
Houser said another positive
feature of the new field is that
there are permanent lights.
Houser and Deterding said they
are also hoping to build a band
tower on the field.
Ben Wooley, junior in Engineering, has played the cymbals
in the Marching Illini for two
years. Wooley said the fields the
Marching Illini uses for practice
now are hard to march on, especially with heavy instruments.
“(The new practicing space)
makes me kind of grateful that
a lot of the different entities on
campus are appreciative of what
we do,” Wooley said.

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STAFF WRITER

OLIVIER DOULIERY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Hundreds of demonstrators protest against the U.S. intervention
in Syria outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Saturday.
threatened enough to attempt to
escalate the Syrian conflict into a
regional one. Middle Eastern leaders have frequently attempted to
distract from a domestic problem
or conflict by provoking Israel,
banking that their citizens dislike
the Jewish state more than their
own leaders.
Assad’s most immediate way to
punish American attacks could be
to retaliate in a way that drives up
oil prices, squeezing the already
soft U.S. and European economies.
As tensions with Syria rose two
weeks ago, the price of U.S. crude
oil soared past $112 a barrel before
edging back to a range between
$107 and $109 a barrel. Traders
justify the high prices as a “security” premium; U.S. oil remained
above $107 a barrel at the end of

trading Friday.
Seeking to spike oil prices, Syria could strike at the pipeline in
northern Iraq that connects with
Turkey and the outside world.
“There are some real vulnerabilities on Syria’s border that hang
in the balance,” said Kilduff, noting a sympathetic bomber in Saudi
Arabia could send oil prices soaring. “Any kind of perceived threat
to the (Saudi) Royal Family is just
going to raise the security premium mightily.”
Much depends on how threatened the Assad regime feels. If a
strike does little to threaten Assad,
it emboldens him. If Assad is
threatened, it raises the stakes for
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Scientists from the University are joining forces with
researchers from across the
world to complete a Dark
Energy Survey, a collaborative project intended to uncover the nature of dark energy.
The survey is one of the largest
ever attempted and will take
five years.
Above weather interference
in the Andes mountains about
50 miles east of La Serena,
Chile, rests the Cerro Tololo
Inter-American Observatory. The observatory houses a
570-megapixel camera, which
was built at Fermilab and is
used to photograph the sky in
extreme detail.
Jon Thaler, University physics professor, said he led a team
of particle physicists to help
create the Dark Energy Camera, which will be used to take
pictures of one-eighth of the
sky.
The pictures taken over the

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next five years will be processed by the University’s
National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Tricia Barker, public affairs coordinator for NCSA, said it will
take the data and make it available for the survey’s scientists.
NCSA, which houses the supercomputer Blue Waters, is one
of the few organizations that
has the ability to run quadrillions of calculations every second, which makes possible processing the trillions of bytes
of data that this project will
accumulate.
The camera will be able to
see light up to 100,000 galaxies and eight billion light years
away.
Siv Schwink, communications coordinator for the physics deparment, said the purpose
of the project is to “solve the
biggest mystery of our time —
what is dark energy?”
Dark Energy is believed to
be the force that is causing the
acceleration of universe expansion, while it should be decelerating due to the gravitational
effects of ordinary matter.

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Today’s Birthday
Love is the fundamental
basic this year. Romantic,
brotherly or creative passions
provide delectable flavors and
unforgettable color. Time with
young people rejuvenates. Shift
focus from personal to team
ambitions, and take charge where
needed. Judiciously save money.
Practice passions by sharing them.
Get the word out about what you
love.
To get the advantage, check the
day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day,
0 the most challenging.

Kit Donahue

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

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Today is a 5 — Mercury enters
Libra, and for almost a month,
expert assistance provides ease.
Build your partnerships. Set
long-term goals, scheduling with
discipline. Explore a long-distance
opportunity. Payment is not always
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Today is a 6 -- Romance grows.
It’s getting easier to communicate
at home. Don’t ask for favors.
Slow down to avoid accidents. If
controversy arises, get the family
to help.

Today is a 5 -- Traveling isn’t as
easy. Look at a breakdown as
a challenge, and stick to your
budget. For the next month, let the
group decide. They’re laughing with
you, not at you. Relax.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)

Today is a 6 -- For about three
weeks, you learn with ease.
Review the basics. Choose what’s
best for all. It’s not a good time
to travel or make a big purchase.
Plan a luxurious evening at home.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)

Today is a 6 -- Prepare to
compromise and streamline your
routine. Show that you know
what you’re doing. You’re in line
for a bonus, despite an awkward
moment. Fall back on tradition.

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Today is a 5 -- Pass along what
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month, talk about what works
(with Mercury in Libra). Do your
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breakdowns, especially today. Take
it easy.

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Today is a 5 -- A solution to an
old problem is becoming obvious.
Creative work profits for the
next month. Your team takes the
prize. Keep your tone respectful.
Mistakes may occur.
Today is a 7 -- Figure out finances.
This coming month, you’re extraintellectual. Excite your partner
with a challenge. Check the rules.
Do the research. Cut entertainment
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Today is a 5 -- Assume more
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and edit your work. Provide facts.
A new technique doesn’t work.
Take care.

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Rights to ‘World Trade Center’
name were quietly sold for $10
BY SHAWN BOBURG
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

For more than four decades,
the World Trade Center has been
one of the world’s greatest public
landmarks.
But in a quiet deal nearly 30
years ago, the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey sold
off the rights to the buildings’
name to a nonprofit organization
established by one of its executives for $10.
The former executive, Guy Tozzoli, who died this year, earned
millions primarily by licensing
the name through the group, the
World Trade Centers Association.
The Port Authority is among the
hundreds of licensees around the
world paying thousands of dollars each year for the privilege
of using the words “World Trade
Center.”
Now, with the Port Authority hoping to sell branded souvenirs and merchandise next
year after the new One World
Trade Center skyscraper opens,
the World Trade Centers Association is requesting free office
space worth more than $500,000

a year in exchange for use of the
trademark.
“I am gravely concerned that
a secret deal, years ago, sold the
name of the World Trade Center for 10 bucks,” said the Port
Authority’s deputy executive
director, Bill Baroni.
The deal with Tozzoli’s group
came out of an era when the Port
Authority was often criticized for
leading an imperial, self-interested existence in which its executives were rewarded with travel and other perks unusual in
government.
The sale of the trademark
turned out to be perhaps the
biggest financial benefit of Tozzoli’s long career, during which
he oversaw construction of the
Twin Towers. In 2011, his last
year as president of the nonprofit,
according to WTCA tax filings,
Tozzoli received $626,000.
A World Trade Centers Association representative said the
organization was not set up to
make money, but rather to pursue laudable goals. A search of
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trademarked the name on a host
of products including greeting
cards, pens and binoculars.
The spat is intensifying as the
12th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks approaches — a tragedy that the nonprofit groups says
in a promotional video on its website has raised awareness of the
World Trade Center brand.
The WTCA charges an initial
$200,000 for use of the name on
a building, plus $10,000 in annual membership fees. The Port
Authority, owner of the nearly completed skyscraper called
One World Trade Center, pays
the $10,000 fee, records show.
Silverstein Properties, the firm
that is building three other towers on the site that also use the
name, has an undisclosed agreement with the association, said
Scott Richie of the WTCA general counsel.
Each year, more than 320 members, public and private, also pay.
In 2011, the company’s revenue
was $6.9 million. There is one
member in a run-down storefront
off Hudson Street in Hackensack. Suite 1 of the building is the

home of the World Trade Center
of Northern New Jersey, which
doubles as a real estate office.
Kley Peralta, a 70-year-old real
estate broker who runs the center with his son, the owner, said
they get business leads through
the World Trade Center network.
The Peraltas take a commission
if they can close a deal, he said.
The broader WTCA says it
offers members some of the
same kind of services: information about market conditions in
their respective regions, local
business contacts, business support services and group trade
missions. Members can use the
facilities of other World Trade
Centers around the world.
Nevertheless, records show
that the venture was lucrative
for Tozzoli and other Port Authority retirees. Public tax filings
by the WTCA show that in 2009,
2010 and 2011, Tozzoli’s combined annual compensation was
$1.7 million. That was on top of
a $113,000-a-year public pension.
The three years of tax filings are
currently the only ones publicly
available.

WASHINGTON — President
Barack Obama has announced
the names of the five members
of a task force to examine the
National Security Agency’s controversial collection of Internet and cell phone records, but
privacy and open government
advocates say they don’t believe
the panel is likely to be very
critical of the NSA program.
At the time Obama announced
the panel’s creation Aug. 9,
anger at the extent of the NSA
collection efforts was at its
height, and the president’s move
was intended to calm growing
congressional calls for curbs
on the program. Obama said the
panel would be made up of outside experts and would review
the government’s use of its
intelligence-gathering capabilities and whether it adhered to
constitutional standards.
“The review group will assess
whether, in light of advancements in communications
technologies, the United States
employs its technical collection
capabilities in a manner that
optimally protects our national
security and advances our foreign policy while appropriately accounting for other policy
considerations, such as the risk
of unauthorized disclosure and
our need to maintain the public
trust,” a White House memorandum on the panel said.
But advocates note that four
of the five people named to the
panel last week have long histories in government or in the
intelligence community, and
they said that made it unlikely the panel would be critical
of the government’s practices
when it completes its required
final report, which is due Dec.
15.
Steven Aftergood, director
of the Federation of American
Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy, said even the
panel’s assignment misses the
major concerns that have been
expressed about the NSA programs, which had been kept
largely secret from the public
until their extent was leaked in
June by fugitive former NSA
contractor Edward Snowden.
“Basically, they’re saying,

‘Well how can we optimize surveillance while taking privacy
into account?’ Aftergood said.
But what people really want to
know is whether the NSA violates the law and the Constitution, he added. “I’m not sure
that that sense of urgency has
been adequately communicated
to the review board.”
The
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ’s
announcement of the panel in
August sparked controversy,
when statements released by
the White House suggested
that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper would
lead the inquiry. Obama later denied that Clapper would
have a hand in the panel, which
the president had insisted
would be “independent” of the
administration.
But although Clapper will not
lead the review, four of the panel’s five members have direct
ties to the executive branch
and its intelligence-gathering
apparatus.
Michael Morell is the former
deputy director of the Central
Intelligence Agency. Richard
Clarke is the former national
coordinator for security, infrastructure protection and counter-terrorism, and served as a
counter-terrorism and security adviser in the administrations of presidents George H.W.
Bush, Bill Clinton and George
W. Bush. Peter Swire served as
chief privacy counsel for the
Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton.
Cass Sunstein, a law professor at Harvard University, is
reportedly a close friend of
the president and was formerly administrator of the White
House Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, which
oversees the policies of executive agencies.
The panel’s fifth member is
Geoffrey Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago and an expert on conflicts
between constitutional rights
and national security. He joined
the faculty of the law school
in 1973, two years after he
received his law degree.
“It’s notable that several
members of the board have
strong ties to the intelligence
community or the administration,” said Jameel Jaffer, who
directs the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy
and Technology Project. “On
the whole, it does seem a bit of
a stretch to call this an independent board.”

Enrollment numbers
declining in Missouri
Colleges under
pressures to bring
in more students
BY TIM BARKER
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

ST. LOUIS — The University
of Missouri-Columbia needs to
find 638 students over the next
few weeks to avoid ending a winning streak that started in 1995.
Since then, the school has
managed to grow — sometimes
by a little, and sometimes by a
lot — every year.
The numbers won’t be final
for a couple of weeks. And while
Mizzou did pick up nearly 500
stragglers by the time the official count was taken last year,
things don’t look so promising
this time around.
Of course, it’s not a major
blow for a school with more than
34,000 students to lose a couple
hundred of them.
But it illustrates the mounting pressure colleges face as
they deal with a demographic
shift that’s churning out smaller
high school graduating classes.
It’s forcing schools to get creative in attracting students,
often setting their sights on
states where students are more
plentiful. The problem is that
many schools have the same
ideas, said Ann Korschgen, Mizzou’s vice provost for enrollment management.
“There is much more aggressive competition this year,”
Korschgen said in an email.
“Many other major universities from across the country
are trying to attract nonresident students, often with substantial scholarship packages
or tuition waivers.”
A look around the region
shows that Mizzou is among
several campuses with slipping
enrollment. It should be noted
that some schools will gain sub-

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the regime would then be at stake.
“I think that some of these scenarios for ‘unforeseen consequences’ are a bit alarmist. I think the
threats emanating from Damascus and Tehran are meant to unset-

stantially between now and the
time they take their official
counts, while others will lose
students.
In Springfield, Mo., Missouri
State University’s early enrollment figures show a 7.8 percent
decline, but it is expected to
surge by more than 2,000 students after high schoolers enroll
in dual-credit programs. Similarly, Lindenwood University’s
preliminary numbers suggest
an 8.4 percent dip, but the figures don’t factor in some latestarting programs expected to
create an enrollment increase
topping 4 percent.
More troubling is what’s
happening at St. Louis Community College, where enrollment has fallen more than 18
percent since 2011 when the
school boasted an enrollment
of more than 29,000. This year
alone, enrollment is down nearly 11 percent, falling below the
24,000 mark.
While the school is scrambling to deal with the repercussions of the decline, it was not
unexpected.
Community colleges, in particular, tend to see an enrollment boost during tough economic times, followed by a
decline when things get better.
That, combined with the smaller
pool of high school graduates, is
hurting the school.
“I don’t think where we are is
any surprise to us,” said Donna Dare, vice chancellor for
academic and student affairs.
“Community colleges across the
country are feeling the pinch.
We’re all trying to level out and
see where we stabilize.”
The community’s college’s
downward trend also means
trouble for the University of
Missouri-St. Louis, which draws
half of its transfer students
from there.
It’s a situation that’s driven
UMSL to push its recruiting
tle nervous populations in western
countries,” said Wayne White, a
scholar at the Middle East Institute and a former deputy director
of the State Department’s office in
charge of Middle East intelligence.
By retaliating, Assad would
invite even more intervention in
Syria’s conflict, White said.
If there is a strike, both Assad

DAVID CARSON MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Freshman Ryan Serrano walks across the quad at Maryville University to his dorm after class Aug. 30. Serrano, from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.,
is studying criminal justice at Maryville.
boundaries as far as Chicago
— with mixed results.
On one hand, the school saw
a 5 percent increase in transfer
applications this year, fueling
hopes of a 1 percent increase
in undergrads. But the optimism faded when the surge in
applicants failed to produce an
increase in actual students, said
Alan Byrd, dean of enrollment
services.
Instead, the school is looking
at a slight enrollment decline
and the prospect of similar
results in coming years.
“We have to be able to attract
more students from outside the
region,” Byrd said. “We can’t
rely on local students to meet
our enrollment goals.”

There are schools, however,
that are having success in spite
of the high school demographic
obstacle.
Early returns show the Missouri University of Science and
Technology with a 4 percent
increase in students.
Laura Stoll, vice provost and
dean of enrollment management, attributes the hike to
the school’s strong reputation
and the fact that its graduates
earn an average starting salary approaching $60,000 a year.
“We hear it from the families,” Stoll said. “People want
a return on their investment.”
On the far extreme is
Maryville University, which is
looking at a 19 percent enroll-

ment increase, topping the 5,000
mark.
That is, in part, because of an
aggressive out-of-state recruiting effort that started several
years ago, said Mark Lombardi,
the school’s president. The university also has ramped up its
graduate and online offerings —
all part of an effort to counter
the decline in high schoolers.
“A lot of schools sort of circled the wagons and looked
inward,” Lombardi said. “We
did the reverse.”
Maryville pulls 60 percent
of its students from within 200
miles of the school. And while
enrollment has remained steady
with that group, Lombardi said
the strongest growth had come

from out of state.
The school actively seeks students throughout the Midwest
and now has full-time recruiters
in Texas and California, a state
that’s having trouble meeting
the higher education needs of
its residents.
Among the school’s recent
additions is Ryan Serrano, a freshman from Rancho
Cucamonga, Calif.
Serrano, who is studying
criminal justice, said he learned
about Maryville when he went to
one of the university’s recruiting sessions at his high school.
Maryville gradually climbed
to the top of his wish list as he
visited schools on the East and
West coasts.

and Obama must calibrate their
responses with an eye toward an
end goal. For Assad, it’s a basic one:
outlasting the insurgents and surviving. For Obama, the matter is
more complicated.
“You do ultimately want a negotiated outcome to this conflict
because we certainly don’t want to
see the regime win — but we don’t

want to see a straight-up victory
for the opposition,” said Michael
Singh, a former top national security adviser during the administration of President George W. Bush.
A collapse of the Assad regime
could leave parts of Syria ungovernable and strengthen jihadists
who make up part of the opposition, he cautioned.

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The Dark Energy Survey scientists are mapping the amount
of matter in the universe to study
what is happening more accurately. The team is looking at expansion over time to see the history
of the behavior of the universe.

DARK ENERGY
“It’s like when you throw a rock
in the air, you expect it to slow as
it travels further up,” Thaler said.
“This would be equivalent to you
tossing the rock up, then it just
shoots up out of nowhere.”

Ariell can be reached at
acarterc2@dailyillini.com.

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RICK MCKEE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

ED I TO R IAL

Student debt
crisis needs
attention
from US
policymakers

T

he statistics are
widely available:
There is roughly $1
trillion of student
debt, more than
37 million people have
outstanding loans and the
average sticker price of a
college education exceeds
$20,000 a year. And these
numbers continue to climb.
Growing along with
these numbers is U.S.
policymakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; focus on
slowing or reversing these
increases. How to handle
these exorbitant debts seems
to puzzle Congress and,
more pointedly, the state
because despite all the talk,
little action has excelled
at rescuing debt-laden
Generation Y students.
In an attempt to give the
debt crisis more light, the
Illinois Student Senate
created an ad hoc Student
Debt Awareness committee
Wednesday. Currently, there
is no committee in ISS that
specifically handles student
debt, and the topic appears
on its agenda only when a
senator seems to think it
imperative to speak about it.
The creation of the
committee will not solve
the debt crisis faced by our
generation, and is it likely to
create any noticeable dent in
it, but it will give students
facing the seismic weight of
student debt a voice in the
matter. ISS has the ability
to take its legislation before
the University and before the
state, and the personal stories
of University students, who
face some of the highest instate tuition prices in the
U.S., could push the state
to solve the problem more
swiftly.
It might seem silly to create
a specific committee to bring
more awareness to something
so real to students, but we
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it is.
Our generation has become
so vastly dependent on loans
and our parents to take us in
when we simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make
payments or find sufficient
employment. Education was
once a cost that was worth the
thousands of dollars in loans,
but the difficulty of finding
a job or paying down the
debts we accumulate seems to
signal otherwise.
But we are also dependent
on a college education.
Secretary and office assistant
jobs for Generation X could
be secured with a good
work ethic and a high school
diploma, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the
case any longer.
We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it in this
country without a college
degree, but we also canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
make it with one.
Students living with this
debt are acutely aware of the
dire situation a few months
after graduation. Most
legislators understand it, but
several of them havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lived
with it like we do now.
Our generation is alone in
this burden, but now it seems
fixing it is out of our control.
We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t boycott college; we
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just skip it because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
too expensive. For better or
worse, we have to go.
All we can afford is to voice
our experiences and hope
that it gets through to our
government that this cannot
continue.

Bullying not just a school-aged phenomenon
SEHAR SIDDIQUI
Opinions columnist

W

hen I think about bullying,
my mind first jumps
anywhere between
elementary school and high
school. The images that I first
think of include bigger-studenton-smaller-student bullying
and the typical stealing lunch
money scenario or the cliche
â&#x20AC;&#x153;meet me at the playground after
schoolâ&#x20AC;? situation. Although these
situations are problematic, one
stands out more than the other.
What I never thought of is
the idea of bullying on a college
campus, perhaps because it
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get that much attention.
Maybe this could be explained by
the differing natures of bullying
in school-aged versus collegeaged individuals. Even the way
the structures of K-12 schools and
college campuses are set up could
contribute to this discrepancy.
The next question I asked
myself was, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why?â&#x20AC;? It couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
be as simple as bullying just not
existing on a college campus.
What happened to the bullies
in high school whose misdeeds
went under the radar? Did they
suddenly reform, or are they
carrying out their activities
in a more clandestine fashion?
Maybe once bullies transition to
college, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re intimidated that
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re no longer at the top of the
hierarchy.

On the other hand, some of
these bullies might be more
fluid in their abuse and can
easily switch to other, more nonconfrontational forms of abuse.
Although students in the
K-12 range donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always report
incidents of cyberbullying, smaller
class sizes may allow teachers to
detect distraught students more
easily especially since these
teachers are more concerned with
their studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mental well-being
than college professors can be. On
college campuses with class sizes
ranging anywhere from seven to
750 students, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost impossible
for professors to notice students
who might be in trouble, and more
importantly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer the
professorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s responsibility. Lack
of staff and teacher involvement
could contribute to decreased
reports of bullying on college
campuses.
Additionally, we can also
look at the fact that in recent
years, bullying has taken on new
identities. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer just a
black and white physical form
of aggression. Peer harassment
extends to cyberbullying,
exclusion or other forms of
passive-aggressive abuse. These
forms of bullying that can occur
over social networking sites, text
messages or even emails are
much more difficult to keep track
of and record. Bullies who are too
fearful to continue carrying out
their activities in person can now
take refuge behind a computer
screen. Reporting these incidents
depends on the victim either
reporting the incident themselves

or choosing to fill out a survey for
research purposes.
Professors at Indiana State
University realized that there was
barely any research on college
bullying and conducted a study
across college campuses. They
found that 22 percent of college
students were cyberbullied and
15 percent experienced bullying
in some other shape or form.
This statistic might not seem
staggeringly high; however,
this study also found that 25
percent of children K-12 have
been cyberbullied. When you
compare the two proportions, the
three percent difference doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
seem like that huge of a gap, so
it is shocking to observe that
the occurrence of cyberbullying
across college campuses isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
really significantly lower than
the incidence of cyberbullying
in K-12 schools. These numbers
show that bullying is still an
issue even beyond high school
and, accordingly, deserves more
attention and research.
Professors from Indiana State
University speculate that there
is a high possibility of even more
bullying cases, but due to minimal
research and students not coming
forward, there is not much record
of this kind of harassment.
Another study conducted by the
University at Buffalo supports
that 22 percent of college-aged
students have been cyberbullied,
and in addition, states that 18.5
percent of college students
have experienced some type of
bullying. Since a university in
the Midwest and a university on

the East Coast had consistent
findings, it begs the question of
whether other universities across
America also had similar rates of
bullying, or instances of bullying
at all.
Luckily, most campuses
including ours offer some kind
of counseling service. These
counselors can assist students
with their immediate problems
and recommend a range of
services students can take
advantage of. Also, students
living in residence halls can turn
to their resident advisors for help
if they ever find themselves the
victim of a bullying situation.
Bullying is a pervasive and
serious issue, and the prevalence
of it across universities is barely
spoken of. An environmental
change does not lead to a
personality change. Bullies
can adapt to torment students
from afar and because of the
advances of the digital age, they
can also cloak themselves in the
anonymity of social networking.
While some universities are
beginning to notice patterns
of bullying that continue into
college, more schools from
different regions should begin
carrying out their own research
as well. Higher observance of
these usually unreported cases
would lead to more awareness
and eventually more campus
resources to deal with and
prevent bullying.

Sehar is a junior in LAS. She
can be reached at shsiddi2@
dailyillini.com.

take responsibility when it comes
time to resurrect the dust buster
because the accumulation of cat
hair on the living room floor has
manifested into tumbleweeds, and
our hardwood floors into carpet.
And when a food coma confines us
to the couch and we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take one
more second of Carrie Bradshaw
meta-commenting her doubts with
Big, even though she cheated on
him with Aiden, but then moved
to Paris with Petrovsky, which is
totally â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you get the point â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Tyler who scavenges through the
cushions for the remote.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m obviously the man in the
relationship: I have the lower voice,
the larger of our residual collections of sport shorts from the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;straightâ&#x20AC;? years, and I get uncomfortable wearing more than two
primary colors in one shirt. Tyler
probably doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wear the pants
in the relationship: He likes wearing neon pants that might as well
revolve around the Earth like a
second sun. He condemns me for
my fashion disasters such as wanting to wear anything American
Eagle, and he does the majority of
the housework.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plain and simple: Society
depicts that the one that does the
masculine work wears the pants,
the one that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t is, well, just the
belt to keep the pants up, I guess.
Asking whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the man and whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

the woman in the relationship isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
typically asked out of curiosity, nor
is it usually asked expecting a serious, straightforward answer. Fact
is, asking who wears the pants and
asking who the man is in the relationship, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degrading.
Because both of us wear pants.
Both of us have typically masculine characteristics, and both of us
have feminine ones, too. Neither of
us are the man or the woman, nor
the pants or the skirt. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both
the men in the relationship. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
just two individuals in a committed
relationship. And our roles? Well,
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the beauty about being in an
untraditional relationship: There
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be any.
If you have to ask two men who
the man is in the relationship, the
optometrist is a phone call away,
and may I recommend a dose of
feminist theory while youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at it?
We are both men who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t strive
to fit roles and molds set by heterosexual couples and a heteronormative society. Sometimes I do the
traditionally feminine work, and
other times the traditionally masculine. But at the end of the day,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not gendered work, just work.
And whether that particular job fits
a genderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role is just as irrelevant;
we conform to the type of work
that needs to be done, period.
And this extrapolates into an
even larger problem: social hierarchies. And you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to look
much further than our very own
campus and throughout the media
to see the intersection between
gender roles and social hierarchies.
Gay men competing to be the bulkiest, â&#x20AC;&#x153;straightest,â&#x20AC;? most masculine

you can be without actually being
heterosexual. Because when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
perceived as straight, you assimilate better into a society that values
white, heterosexual men. And once
that hyper-masculinity is obtained,
the rest are instantly deemed feminine. This phenomenon perpetuates
so that eventually, the distinction
between feminine and masculine
gay men is largely observable, and
the status as either a masculine or
feminine gay man is all the more
important to associate with.
There is undoubtedly a crossroads between traditional gender
roles and untraditional relationships. The same groups that are,
in fact, untraditional and who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
adhere to traditional roles, are now
trying to simply force themselves
to fit. There are untraditional
groups trying to fit traditional roles
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not the man in the relationship, and neither is Tyler. The first
problem is pretending like there
needs to be one, the second is that
our society canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at gender
roles as malleable and abstract.
Sure, Tyler may be handier
around the house, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m more
about work and school, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
just our personalities, not our permanent roles. If the cats are clawing each other over catnip privileges, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not Tylerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job nor is it mine.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the job for whoever isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stubborn enough to wake up in the middle of the night and not complain
about it the next morning.

Adam is a senior in ACES. He
can be reached at huska1@
dailyillini.com.

Asking whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the
man and whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
the woman in the
relationship isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
typically asked out
of curiosity, nor
is it usually asked
expecting a serious,
straightforward
answer. Face is,
asking who wears
the pants and asking
who the man is in
the relationship, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
degrading.

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Latté Da! Cafe & Coffee Bar opened its sixth C-U location in a unique area under Lincoln Hall Theater. The
cafe serves coffee and espresso drinks, cold sandwiches and salads. Catering within the building is also
offered to faculty with pastries from Pekara Bakery & Bistro.

Latté Da! expands with
new cafe in Lincoln Hall
BY KARYNA RODRIGUEZ
SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR

Now hidden in Lincoln Hall
is a treasure.
Step through the doors of the
main entrance off the Quad.
Walk across the marble floors
of the foyer and turn right at
the staircase. Now, journey a
short distance down the East
hallway until the outdoor courtyard comes into view. Descend
the steps and walk through the
hallway past the glass windows.
The treasure is there, tucked
away in an area under the Lincoln Hall Theater: coffee.
With the opening of Latté Da!
Cafe & Coffee Bar in Lincoln
Hall, students and faculty can
now grab a coffee or pick up a
cold sandwich or salad at the
cafe’s kiosk in between classes
and sit at one of the surrounding tables. The cafe opened its
sixth Champaign-Urbana location at the beginning of the
semester.
“We’re off the beaten path a
little bit,” said Lauren Klein,
owner of Latté Da!. “So here
you kind of have to find us. It’s
a little bit more mysterious.”
Although the location is
incomplete, the cafe is still
open for business. Its official

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The rest of the show took on an
intimate, informal atmosphere;
although there were hundreds
of audience members present, it
seemed like he was connecting
with each of them personally.
Members of the audience would
shout their song requests, and
he would play them — only if the
whole crowd would sing parts
of the chorus enthusiastically.
During his set, his numbers
included “Five Long Years,”
“Feels Like Rain,” “Someone
Else is Steppin’ In” and “Meet
Me in Chicago,” a song from
his newest album, “Rhythm
& Blues.” The record was
released in late June earlier
this summer.
At one point during the
show, the Rock and Roll Hall
of Famer strolled up and down

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sense of her character,” Berkovich said. “It’s the way she gives
herself.”
But this is not to say that the
audience was silent the entire
time. During upbeat songs, the
audience danced and cheered
as much as they could while
sitting down. Audience favorites seemed to be “Fruits of
My Labor,” “Concrete Barbed
Wire” and “Out of Touch.”
Perhaps this is the value of
Williams’ talent: no matter the
tempo, style or content of the
song, listeners are able to find

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CINDY
About halfway through the
show, Cashdollar and Dickinson
began a couple of friendly, yet
very impressive, guitar duels.
In the middle of two songs, the
two began trading riffs back
and forth to the delight of the
audience.
Alongside the strings and

grand opening will take place
around Homecoming, Klein
said. Some minor construction still needs to be completed, such as putting trim work
along the bottom of the walls.
Klein said many people use
the cafe’s space to study and
pass time between classes.
She said the reaction from
students and faculty has been
positive.
“Everyone seems really
excited that we’re here,” Klein
said. “Especially the faculty. I
know they’ve been waiting to
get a cup of coffee.”
Although the new location
offers many of the same menu
items as its other locations,
Klein said it will expand for the
grand opening. More hot food,
such as soups, grilled paninis and toasted bagels will be
available.
The cafe, which is a vendor
of the Illini Union food court,
was originally meant to open
with last year’s re-opening of
Lincoln Hall, but was pushed
back due to other reconstruction projects. Lori Holmes,
retail service coordinator for
the Illini Union, said that the
idea for the cafe was supported
by students who were request-

Other locations:
Carle South Clinic Cancer
Center on University Avenye
Carle Clinic on Curtis Road in
Champaign
Champaign Public Library
Activities and Recreation
Center

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Vet Medicine campus (Basic
Sciences Building)
Lincoln Hall
ing to have a food and beverage
options in Lincoln Hall.
“We had the opportunity to
provide additional services to
the students in places they had
identified, and that’s why we’re
here,” Holmes said.
Klein said the cafe is open on
Monday through Friday from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.

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both aisles on the main floor.
The audience was euphoric,
standing, cheering and eagerly
capturing the moment with
their smartphones. Guy even
sat down in one of the few
empty seats and strummed
among the spectators.
Between songs, Guy talked
about his past. He reminisced
about his childhood growing up
in rural Louisiana in the 1930s
and ’40s. As a boy, he made his
own two-stringed guitar and
taught himself to play in his
free time. When he was 21, he
moved up to Chicago and caught
a break with one of his idols at
the time, Muddy Waters.
During the concert, Guy
listed off a number of his
other musical influences in
the form of song snippets. He
played tunes from John Lee
Hooker, Marvin Gaye and Ray
Charles, to name a few — all
the time testing the crowd’s

blues knowledge. He insisted
that everything he learned
throughout his career was
based on these greats and that
he emulated their legacies.
At the end of the set, Guy
received an overwhelming
standing ovation that lasted
several minutes. Members of
the audience shouted for an
encore, but Guy had already
made his exit. Regardless, he
left his impression on all the
fans who flocked to ELLNORA
on Friday night.
It’s clear that when Guy is
onstage, his good-humored
personality is potent. He’s a
lifelong entertainer, and it
shows. He puts passion and soul
into his blues tunes, and those
are what made him the living
legend that he is today.

art in her work.
To me, the overall performance was a work of art. It
was a beautiful sight to see a
group of musicians — Williams,
bassist David Sutton, drummer
Butch Norton and The Wallflower’s guitarist Stuart Mathis —
join together as one unit. For
an hour and a half, I witnessed
not only the talent of Williams,
but the knitting of harmonies,
melodies and rhythms of multiple professionals.
Each musician played with
such ease and grace that I
became an instant fan. But
all of this could not have happened if it weren’t for Williams. Throughout the night,

she was the main orchestrator
and foundation of the performance. There wasn’t a moment
when she wasn’t in sync with
her bandmates. I found this to
be the most inspiring and admirable aspect of Williams as an
artist, and as a person.
The night ended with two
standing ovations, one after the
final song of the performance
and the second encore song.
Williams brought character,
soul and beauty to ELLNORA
and ended the night with these
two words: “Love and peace.”

rhythms of the other musicians,
LaVere and McNally injected
their harmonies into the more
jazzy and blues-driven songs.
Their voices complemented
each other’s well with the laidback quality of the folk-style
melodies. With and without
their string instruments, the
two showed their effortless
musical proficiency in Friday’s
performance.
All in all, the group attracted

an entire tent-full of people in
the late afternoon sun. Many
of the spectators were tapping
their feet, bobbing their heads
and clapping along to the music.
As the musicians walked off
stage after their final song, they
received a standing ovation to
complete the performance.

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She can be reached at
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Reema is a junior in FAA.
She can be reached at
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
%,JC@@9M65@@vs. Arizona State at 10AM / Huff Hall / U OF I STUDENTS FREE
° Home Opener and RST Day
GC779Fvs. Indiana State at 7PM / Illinois Soccer Stadium / FREE
° Meet the Hot Shots at the IKE at 6PM to march to the stadium. Look for the
Illinois Flag!
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° STUFF HUFF! Pre-match Color War for students in south lawn of Huff at 6PMcome wearing white and leave for the match covered in Orange and Blue!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
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° Chicago Homecoming Game

° Student Season ticket holders receive a free ticket to this game!

%,JC@@9M65@@vs. #6 Texas at 7PM / Huff Hall / U OF I STUDENTS FREE

° Come cheer on your Illini as they take on the defending National Champions!
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
GC779Fvs. Florida International at 12PM / Illinois Soccer Stadium / FREE
° Illini March: Meet the Hot Shots at the IKE at 6PM to march to the stadium.
Look for the Illinois flag!
° Student Jersey Day: Wear your favorite World Cup or High School Soccer Shirt!
Snacks provided and Spike Squad Point!

As Jonny Lang took the stage
to close the Opening Night Party of ELLNORAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth biennial
guitar festival, the crowd erupted
into applause and excited cheers.
I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t familiar with Lang prior
to this performance, but his undeniable stage presence and humble aura grabbed my attention.
At the start of the show, it was
obvious that I was in the presence
of a star.
Lang entered the music scene
at the young age of 16 and found
great success with his major-label
debut â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lie To Me.â&#x20AC;? Since then,
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become a Grammy Awardwinning American singer and
songwriter with a style that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
be fit into a particular genre but a
blend of many: rock, blues, Gospel
and even a bit of country.
Thus, it seemed Langâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appearance at ELLNORA was an exciting event for guitar enthusiasts
and music lovers.
One fan in the audience was
Paul Speers, a 61-year-old retiree from Urbana.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the blues world, he was
being titled as a prodigy, and of

course I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the opportunity to see him here in my own
backyard,â&#x20AC;? Speers said.
Before long, I could understand
Speersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; enthusiasm for Langâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
performance. Lang played guitar
solos and licks with so much passion and energy that he was dripping with sweat by the end of the
first song.
Lang treated his electric guitar
with such delicateness that he was
able to produce beautiful music,
regardless of whether the song
was fast or slow. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no wonder
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shared the stage with guitar
legends such as Buddy Guy, B.B.
King and The Rolling Stones in the
past 16 years.
However, the guitar isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the
only instrument Lang mastered
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his voice is a fine-tuned instrument of its own.
Bearing the resemblance of
Steven Tylerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high vocal range,
Lang also possesses the smooth
vocals of Gavin DeGraw and the
soul of Jeff Buckley. Lang showcased this diverse mix of vocal
styles through the delivery of difficult runs, the vocal mimicking of
high-pitched guitar notes and the
purity of his tone.

ALLISON DIAZ THE DAILY ILLINI

Jonny Lang performs during the Opening Night Party of ELLNORA at
the Krannert Center in Urbana on Thursday.
All of these elements created
such a powerful energy and unique
sound that my body couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help
but move to the melodic artistry
of Langâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance. I could
see that the majority of the audience felt the same way, as their
bodies swayed, feet tapped and
heads shook in awe of Langâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical craft.
One audience member I noticed
in particular was Mary Ellen Farrell, a 62-year-old guitar enthusiast and ELLNORA frequenter
from Urbana.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have been coming to the guitar festival ever since it started,â&#x20AC;?
Farrell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love blues guitar,
and (Langâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) voice is so incredible.â&#x20AC;?

In the end, with the help of his
touring band â&#x20AC;&#x201D; drummer Barry
Alexander, bassist James Anton,
rhythm guitarist Akil Thompson and keyboardist Dwan Hill
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lang succeeded in bringing a
performance that the audience
would remember and could ultimately respond to.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The guy just puts a ton of energy, and I think the crowd felt that
and they were giving it back. It
seemed like he was just feeding
off of it,â&#x20AC;? Speers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a
great show.â&#x20AC;?

Stephanie is a senior in
Media. She can be reached at
skim108@dailyillini.com.

BRIAN YU THE DAILY ILLINI

Cindy Cashdollar accompanies Luther Dickinson & The Wandering
on her dobro guitar at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on
Friday.

Folk, blues mix in
joint performance
BY REEMA ABI-AKAR
STAFF WRITER

When the members of Luther
Dickinson & The Wandering
are onstage, you can tell
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having a good time.
When Cindy Cashdollar joins
the mix, it becomes an upbeat,
rhythmic party.
On Friday afternoon at
ELLNORA, the musical group
lit up Krannert Center for the
Performing Artsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sonic Garden
with a myriad of restructured
southern roots tunes. In fact,
the concert was moved outdoors
from its original indoor location
to take advantage of the sunny
weather.
T h is ye a r, C ashdol l a r
is E L L NOR Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a r tist-i nresidence. She is an acclaimed
Grammy-winning guitarist who
has recorded music with the
likes of Willie Nelson, Bob
Dylan, Rod Stewart and Van
Morrison. She has performed
at EL L NOR A three times
in the past. This weekend,
she supplemented Luther
Dickinson & the Wandering,
whose frontman himself has
appeared at ELLNORA two
times. Luther Dickinson was
ELLNORAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artist-in-residence
in 2011.
As early-arriving viewers
sipped their drinks and others
trickled inside the white tent,
Dicki nson strummed his
guitar. In between songs, he
talked about his father, the late
Mississippi roots music legend
Jim Dickinson. His musically
inclined family would play
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mississippi front porch music
jams,â&#x20AC;? which he and his band
emulated Friday at Krannert.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sit on the front porch
and drink moonshine and jive,â&#x20AC;?
he said, inviting a few chuckles
from the audience.
Dickinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fellow bandmate
Sharde Thomas also has
music a l
t a lent
r u n n i ng
through her family â&#x20AC;&#x201D; her late
grandfather Otha Turner was
famous for his fife and drum
music in Mississippi during
the mid-1900s. For most of
his life, he was a farmer, but
once he began making and
playing his own bamboo fifes,
Turner became a full-fledged
musician. During the show,
Thomas showed her own drum
and fife skills, maintaining the
legacy of her grandfather.
The onstage musicians also
included Wandering band
members Amy LaVere, Shannon
McNally and John Paul Keith.
Their instruments ranged from
a keyboard, drums, a fife, a
double bass and of course,
guitars. Cashdollar strummed
a lap steel guitar throughout
most of the 50-minute set.
Together they played nine
songs, keeping the theme of
jazz, folk and blues-rock while
adding their own distinctive
st yle. T hey tra nsitioned
smoothly from one genre to
the next, with the members
switching dominant vocals,
guitar and other instruments.
Their variety meshed well,
creating a unique alfresco-style
concert. The song list included
the Wanderingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wang Dang
Doodleâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sentimental
Blues,â&#x20AC;? as well as the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
own rendition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glory, Glory.â&#x20AC;?

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HASAN KHALID THE DAILY ILLINI

Legendary Louisiana-born bluesman Buddy Guy takes the stage at
ELLNORA on Friday night at Krannert Center. Buddy Guy put on an
electrifying performance that had the crowd jamming out the entire time.

ZACH DALZELL THE DAILY ILLINI

Lucinda Williams (center) performs at the Krannert Center on Satuday
during the ELLNORA guitar festival. She was named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best
songwriterâ&#x20AC;? by Time Magazine in 2002.

After roughly 60 years of
playing the guitar, Buddy Guy
hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t missed a beat.
On Friday night, the blues
music icon played an hourand-a-half-long set to a packed
house at the Krannert Center
for the Performing Artsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tryon
Festival Theatre. Gatherers in
the outdoor Sonic Garden were
also able to watch the show
from a free live stream of the
ELLNORA stage.
Cracking jokes and even
clowning around with the
photographers, the 77-year-old
guitarist certainly didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let his
age hinder the energy of his
performance. He made playing
the guitar look effortless and
natural, all while engaging the
crowd and spewing complicated
riffs and intricate impromptu
solos.
Urbana is not unfamiliar
territory for Guy; he has played
here in the past, including a

show back in 1983. Today, the
six-time Grammy-winning
artist is known as one of
the greatest guitarists of all
time. His talents have been
recognized by the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National
Medal of Arts, Rolling Stone,
and through many more
awards.
In the past, the acclaimed
musician has collaborated with
guitar virtuosos Johnny Winter,
Carlos Santana, Muddy Waters
and Eric Clapton, among many
others.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s everybody doinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
tonight?â&#x20AC;? he asked near the
beginning of the show, inviting
raucous cheers from the crowd.
One lone spectator shouted,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;How are you doinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;?â&#x20AC;? The
audience laughed, and Guy
thought for a second. With a
sincere smile, he replied that
the crowd was making him feel
â&#x20AC;&#x153;on top of the world.â&#x20AC;?

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BY STEPHANIE KIM
STAFF WRITER

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll admit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it felt odd being
an outlier in a crowd of predominantly 50- and 60-year-olds.
But after seeing Lucinda Williams perform at ELLNORA on
Saturday night, I wondered why
I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard of her before.
Williams began her career
with the release her album
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ramblinâ&#x20AC;? in 1979, featuring
a blend of rock, folk and country music. Although her unique
style didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring immediate
success, her skill and raw talent
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go unnoticed. She won a
Grammy award and performed
with music legends, such as Van
Morrison and Bob Dylan, later
in her career.
Having performed for nearly
35 years, Williams is no stranger to the stage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it showed
Saturday night. Although it was
a subdued performance, her
voice and simple acoustic pluckings were enough on their own.
The power of her voice enabled

EVERY
FRIDAY

her to express emotions with
grace and charisma that spoke
to the soul. It was the beautiful union between her clear and
piercing tone and fragile falsetto that brought about an emotional response from the audience. Although the audience
was quiet for the most part, it
was more of an act of respect
and admiration for the artist.
This was especially true during the song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was emotional. It was moving. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just amazing as an
artist and moving as a woman,â&#x20AC;?
said Nadia Berkovich, a firsttime ELLNORA attendant from
Urbana.
Her lyrics arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mere reflections, but stories of life experiences and the nature of humanity. Because of this, listeners
are able to feel a personal connection to her music.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;She is able to say a story and
a story about her song; we get a

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SPORTS
Olympic
committee
reinstates
wrestling
Sport now seeks
to become more
spectator-friendly
BY MATT STEINER
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

It was a goal-line stand with more
than 20 minutes of play left, but the
game was very much on the line. Trailing 21-10 with a fourth and goal from
the 1-yard line, Cincinnati quarterback Munchie Legaux ran to his left
and dove for the end zone.
He was met by Illinois safety Earnest Thomas and linebacker Mike
Svetina. The ball was lost from view
in the scrum. Officials originally ruled
the play a touchdown, and the Bearcats
were back in the game.
But after an official video review,
it was determined Legaux had fumbled the ball inches from the end
zone. Officials explained the ball
had been recovered by another Cincinnati player, and by rule, the ball
cannot be advanced from that point.
Illinois ball.
The Illini took possession and
marched 99 yards for a touchdown
and never looked back. Illinois went
on to win 45-17 in front of an announced
crowd of 43,031 at Memorial Stadium
on Saturday.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I punched at (the ball) and tried to
come in with my head up,â&#x20AC;? said Thomas, who was officially given the forced
fumble in the stat book. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really took
the second and third guy (Svetina and
linebacker Mason Monheim) to keep
him out of there. If they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come,
he might have still gotten in.â&#x20AC;?
Head coach Tim Beckman said he
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the ball had crossed the
end zone, and he was prepared to chal-

lenge the play if the officials hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
reviewed it.
He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to. The call was
reversed and the Illini won.
But this wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a win; it was a
statement. And it was a statement no
one saw coming.
Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase and
the Illini passing attack picked up right
where it left off last week against Southern Illinois. Scheelhaase connected with
Josh Ferguson, Martize Barr, Steve Hull
and Evan Wilson for touchdowns. He
finished the game with 312 yards on
26-for-37 passing. His four touchdowns
matched his season total from 2012.
Offensive coordinator Bill Cubitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
unit rolled in the first half, jumping
out to a 21-0 lead. The Bearcats would
answer just before halftime with
Legaux throwing a 1-yard touchdown
to Max Morrison.
Cincinnati added a field goal in the
third quarter and then came the goalline stand. The Illini would outscore
the Bearcats 24-7 after that and score
the final 17 points of the game.
Any attempt at a comeback was
deflated when Legaux went down
with a gruesome leg injury with fewer than 10 minutes remaining in the
fourth quarter. Illinois defensive end
Tim Kynard hit Legaux in the knee
just after Legaux released a pass over
the middle.
Legauxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leg bent in the wrong direction, and he crumpled onto the turf.
He was down on the field for several
minutes while a stretcher was brought
out. His Cincinnati teammates left the

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TOP: Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Steve Hull reaches for a touchdown against Cincinnati at Memorial
Stadium on Saturday. Hull finished with 3 catches for 53 yards.
BOTTOM: Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ryan Lankford runs in a touchdown. Lankford played a big role
both in the air and on the ground, finishing with 46 rushing and 10 receiving yards.

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bench and took a knee in silent prayer.
The stadium fell silent.
Beckman was trying to reach Legaux
after the play, sprinting from his spot
on the sideline to where Legaux fell â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
somewhere around the 25-yard line.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to get out there to him
as quickly as I could,â&#x20AC;? Beckman said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think he was in pain, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no
question.â&#x20AC;?
Legaux was carted off and brought
straight to the hospital, Bearcats head

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thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slowly learning.
It was athletic director Mike
Thomasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; old school, a team that
rose through the ranks and turned
a mediocre program into one that
went 10-3 last season. The Bearcats
could dominate. Illini optimists
hoped their team would remain
competitive.
But no. Illinois had something to
say Saturday.
Illinois ran a smooth, fast-paced
offense for four quarters, taking
advantage of Cincinnatiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weak edges with a dizzying array of formations and glitch plays to run away
with the game.
The Illini kept a balance, with
220 rushing yards and 312 passing
yards, hitting different receivers
and using different players to carry
the weight on the ground.
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paraphrase the immortal
Dennis Green postgame
tirade: We are who you
thought they were.
That was the statement made by
Illinois football with a thorough
45-17 victory over Cincinnati on Saturday. The Illini had doubters, and
with good reason. After Southern
Illinois nearly stole one from a team
that is literally out of its league, fans
and media (myself included) thought
we were seeing a slightly improved
team from 2012.
A 42-7 whipping of Purdue, a team
viewed as a peer of Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in the
conference, painted the Bearcats
as a terrifying opponent for a team

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COLORADO SPRINGS,
Colo. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A loud cheer echoed
throughout at USA Wrestling headquarters on Sunday
morning.
Just after 9:30 a.m., about a
gathering of 75 people could
breathe a little easier after
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge declared wrestling reinstated for the 2020 and 2024
Olympics.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;After having heard we
made it, there is that much
more fight,â&#x20AC;? said Erin Golston,
of the national womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team,
who is targeting 2020 as her
Olympic debut.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our dream is still alive,â&#x20AC;?
she said.
Wrestling, squash and baseball-softball joined five other
sports to make their cases to
retain the sports before the
IOC in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;semifinalsâ&#x20AC;? in late
May.
After an intense 10 minutes of nervously waiting
for the IOC general assembly to complete the vote,
Rogge announced that wrestling received 49 of 95 votes
submitted.
Baseball-softball took second among three finalists with
24 votes and squash received
23.
Golston and her USA teammates broke almost complete
silence with a deafening
cheer, then in electronicage fashion, they all began
Tweeting the good news.
Clarissa Chun, a 2012
Olympic bronze medalist,
was also at the USA Wrestling office on Sunday. She
and others, including FILA
president Nenad Lalovic,
who was televised presenting
from Buenos Aires, Argentina, called Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision
â&#x20AC;&#x153;wrestlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest match in
history.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today is the most important day in the 2,000-year
history of our sport,â&#x20AC;? said
Lalovic, who became leader
of international wrestlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
governing body in February
after the IOC eliminated his
sport as a core Olympic sport.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We feel the weight of that
history. Remaining on the
Olympic program is crucial
to wrestlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s survival.â&#x20AC;?
After wrestling officials
made a fi nal presentation to
the more than 100 delegates
to the general assembly,
they took questions about
changes made to the sport
and the future.
The biggest questions
raised centered around
years in which delegates
considered wrestling a stagnate sport.
Chang Ung, a taekwondo
official from North Korea,
said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;you have to go forward with the evolutionâ&#x20AC;?
when addressing Lalovic,
the United Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jim
Scherr, and three other presenters for wrestling.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all make mistakes,
but we decided to listen and
learn,â&#x20AC;? Lalovic said.
Under Lalovicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidance,
FILA made a move toward
diversity, adding women
to the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership and creating two
more womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weight divisions for the Olympics. The
governing body also made
rule changes in an effort
to make the sport more
spectator-friendly.
Wrestling dates back to
about 700 B.C. and has been
a part of the modern-day
Olympics since 1896.

Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball grows tougher with help from SEAL Team PT
BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGER
STAFF WRITER

Toughness and togetherness
has been the mantra for the Illinois menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team since
John Groce took over in April
2012.
The Illini wore orange bracelets with â&#x20AC;&#x153;TNTâ&#x20AC;? engraved on
them all last season to remind
them of their motto and their goal
of making the NCAA tournament.
Last week, the Illini received a
lesson on toughness and togetherness in a new way: from the United States militaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elite.
SEAL Team Physical Training, a company founded by former Navy SEAL John McGuire,

came to campus and worked with
the Illini to help the team become
more mentally tough and build
chemistry.
With nine new players, the Illini hardly knew each other when
the SEAL team first came for a
few days in June to work with the
team. McGuire said he could see
a clear difference in the Illini
between the June and September workouts.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We came here in June and
worked with these guys a little bit, and obviously the coaches have worked very hard,â&#x20AC;?
McGuire said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This team has
come a long way.â&#x20AC;?
The company, which also does

corporate team-building, came
in to help Illinois build chemistry and leadership. One of the
ways that the SEALs tried to
build leadership was by splitting into two competing squads,
each captained by a team member. Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teams were captained by Nnanna Egwu and Tracy Abrams.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nnanna really developed as a
leader throughout the four days,â&#x20AC;?
Groce said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tracyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership
really developed.â&#x20AC;?
SEAL Team PT has a track
record of success in working
with athletic teams. The company worked with VCU prior to its
Final Four run in 2011, and both

Toledo basketball teams won the
MAC Championship after working with Seal Team PT in the
summer.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I want to teach these
kids is to believe in themselves,â&#x20AC;?
McGuire said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can all do
more than we think.â&#x20AC;?
For Groce and his staff, doing
more than they thought meant
trying to keep up with the team
by participating in most of the
drills throughout the training
session.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a spring chicken
anymore,â&#x20AC;? Groce said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told
(McGuire) I was sore and he said:
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Quit bragging.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; It shows our guys
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in it with them. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not

just watching and coaching from
an ivory tower, so to speak. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
more hands-on.â&#x20AC;?
In their fi nal SEAL practice
Friday, Groce and his staff followed the players into an inflatable pool full of ice water to swim
under three weights, coming up
for air each time in between. The
drill was especially hard on assistant coach Paris Parham, who,
along with a few Illini players,
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to swim.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want the mindset that
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re attacking fear head-on,â&#x20AC;?
Groce said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all have them.
Some people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to admit
that, but we all have fear. We all
have insecurities; we all have

hopes, dreams, as a team we
have to figure out where everybody lies in each of those areas
and help them grow, and I think
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the neat thing about doing
something like this is that it takes
you outside your comfort zone.â&#x20AC;?
The Illini competed in various
drills, including races, push-ups
and sit-ups.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want our guys thinking we
have to win everything we do in
every area of our program to win
anything at all,â&#x20AC;? Groce said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn it on and off.â&#x20AC;?
McGuire saw the competitive
edge.

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Keep an eye
out for these
fresh faces in
orange & blue
ARYN BRAUN
Illini columnist

T

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINI

Outside hitter Jocelynn Birks spikes the ball against Northern Illinois on April 7 at Huff Hall. Birks led the Illini to a 3-0 sweep of No. 11 Iowa State on Sunday.

Illini volleyball splits weekend matches
BY BLAKE PON
STAFF WRITER

Prior to its first home series
of the season, the Illinois volleyball team continued its grueling schedule with a trip to Ames,
Iowa, for the Iowa State Challenge to face its toughest competition of the year thus far.
The Illini opened up the tournament slowly, losing 3-1 Saturday to No. 14 San Diego, a
team head coach Kevin Hambly said would be the most difficult matchup for Illinois yet.
Fortunately for the Illini, the
squad bounced back strong Sun-

day with a 3-0 sweep of No. 11
Iowa State, which put the No.
18-ranked Illini at 3-2 for the
season. The win also marked the
third against a ranked opponent
this season.
In the opener against San
Diego, Illinois kept every set
within five points and outblocked
the Toreros 15-6. But even with a
second-set win at 27-25, the Illini
could not crack a stout and tough
defense.
“(San Diego) is a tough team
to play at this time of the year,”
Hambly said. “They play a totally different style. They’re real-

ly fast, and they handle the ball
well.
“We needed to execute our
game plan that was outside of
how we normally want to play,
and we didn’t. We just didn’t
execute.”
The Illini really showed their
mettle in the following match
against Iowa State. After another slow start to the opening set,
which had the Cyclones leading
20-17, Illinois fought back to take
the set 25-23 and never looked
back.
On their way to season highs
in hitting percentage (.303) and

service aces (eight), the Illini
dominated the next two sets,
winning 25-19 and 25-16 to come
out of the tournament above .500
for the season.
“We knew we needed to be
more prepared (against Iowa
State),” sophomore outside hitter
Jocelynn Birks said. “And really
focused on getting that next win
out of us, that’s what we did.”
Hambly said his team is still
learning a lot about itself during
this difficult road series. He said
the team is learning just about
everything there is to learn, rattling off a long list of key aspects

of the game, from simply learning how to prepare for a match,
to in-game communication, to
leadership roles.
Birks echoed a similar
sentiment.
“I think we learned how to
play as a team,” Birks said. “How
to stick together, even if we’re
not playing our best, just sticking together and finding a way to
win, and I think that’s something
we’re still figuring out how to do,
but we’re getting better at it.”

The weekend seemed like it
would never end.
The Illinois soccer team went
through two games, a one-anda-half hour game delay and four
overtime periods just to see the
end of the weekend. The end
result wasn’t so bright as Illinois fell to 3-2-1, losing to Arizona State on Friday and tying Arizona on Sunday at the Sun Devil
Classic in Tempe, Ariz.
“It was disappointing with
respect to the result,” head coach
Janet Rayfield said. “Certainly
we didn’t come here to be satisfied with a tie and a loss, but I
think we got a lot out of this weekend in terms of improvement
from Friday to (Sunday). Defensively, we figured some things

out, and it was a great lesson in
terms of adapting.”
Friday, after a double overtime draw played out between
Kansas and Arizona on the same
field, the Illini had to wait out a
delay due to uncertain weather.
Once the match began, Illinois
fell behind early to Arizona State
in the first half at 1-0. Seconds
into the second half, sophomore
forward Cali Farquharson doubled the Sun Devils’ advantage
by rifling a shot into the top left
corner of the net. But the Illini
showed they weren’t willing to
give up anything easily.
In 62nd minute, forward
Janelle Flaws was fouled in the
penalty area and captain Vanessa DiBernardo stepped up to
slot home the ensuing spot kick.

Three minutes later, Flaws finished a cross from Megan Pawloski to pull the Illini back on
level terms and begin her brace.
The deadlock only lasted six
minutes before the Arizona
State regained the lead through
Devin Marshall’s second goal of
the game. This lead lasted until
the 80th minute when an Illinois
throw-in was flicked on by freshman defender Casey Conine to
set up Flaws for the completion
of her brace. The goal continued
Flaws’ blistering start to the season as it marked her seventh goal
in six appearances this season.
“She’s definitely an asset to the
team,” DiBernardo said. “She’s
always in the right place at the
right time and she creates opportunities (for others), so it’s defi-

nitely helpful for us as a team to
have someone like that.”
The rest of regulation time and
the first overtime of that game
would remain goalless. The next
goal would come with three and
a half minutes left in the second
overtime as Farquharson’s 107th
minute golden goal secured a win
for the Sun Devils.
Sunday afternoon presented a
new challenge for the Illini as
they faced an undefeated Arizona
team. The Wildcats had started
their season with three wins and
two draws, including the game
against Kansas two days earlier.
The match showcased stellar
displays of defending as both
sides’ defenses and goalkeepers
traded stops and saves. In the
64th minute, the scoreboard final-

ly had a tale to tell after DiBernardo’s 18-yard strike squirmed
through Gabby Kaufman’s gloves
for an Illinois lead. The Illini
were able to maintain this lead
until the 82nd minute when a
clearance inadvertently struck
an Illinois player’s arm in the
box. The Wildcats’ Jazmin Ponce
stepped up to score the penalty
kick and what would be the last
goal of the game.
“If you look at our game on
Friday and Sunday, there was
improvement,” Flaws said.
“There was much improvement
across the field, so I think we are
getting to where we want to be.”

Lanre can be reached at
alabi2@dailyillini.com and
@WriterLanre.

Illini tennis duo breaks
into top 10 in rankings
lessons learned from last season
will put them over the edge to
The Illinois men’s tennis national success.
“Tim and I are extremely
doubles duo of juniors Ross
Guignon and Tim Kopinski is not comfortable playing together,”
content to settle with a No. 10 Guignon said. “We feel that we
preseason ranking. The 2013-14 have the ability to accomplish
ITA rankings, released Friday, more than we did last season, and
gave the Illini their highest I’m looking forward to playing
ranking in their collegiate well and improving each and
careers, and yet they are not every match.”
taking anything for granted.
Much of the pair’s confidence
“We both were not surprised comes from an understanding of
at all by the rankings,” Kopinski what they need to do to improve
said. “The preseason rankings throughout the year. A common
mean nothing
theme heard
if we don’t play
from both was
well. We just
the need to
have to get off
improve on the
to a good start
pair’s serving.
to the season
Guignon and
Kopinski noted
and just get
their ability
better every
week.”
to hold serve
The
duo’s
was
ver y
top-10 ranking
i nconsistent
entering the
at times last
season.
season is just
“They play
the
natura l
ve r y
good
progression
tactical doubles
for the two —
tennis, have
considering
great chemistry
their success
TIM KOPINSKI
together and
from
last
MEN’S TENNIS PLAYER
their energy
s e a s o n .
is
very
Guignon and
Kopinski had a
c o n t a g i o u s ,”
9-7 record together, including head coach Brad Dancer said.
a 4-1 record versus Big Ten “They have a chance to be an
opponents and 3-2 record against elite doubles team this season,
nationally ranked foes.
they just need to develop a more
While the pair was the consistent serve.”
team’s most successful doubles
While Guignon and Kopinski
tandem last season, the duo was remain the top doubles duo for
eliminated in the first round of the Illini, the pair of sophomores
the NCAA tournament to the Jared Hiltzik and Alex Jesse,
defending doubles champions ranked No. 56 in the ITA
from Virginia — well short rankings, will be expected to
of what both were aiming to play a greater role in the overall
accomplish a season ago. Yet, success of the team.
Guignon and Kopinski enter the
“Alex and I didn’t play very
season with confidence that the well at the beginning of last

Men’s cross-country
Will Brewster is hoping to
contribute to a young crosscountry team after coming
off a redshirt season in 2012.
Brewster was a sectional and
state champion for Grayslake
Central High School and
earned all-state honors for both
track and cross-country. In last
year’s outdoor season, he set a
meet record in the 3,000-meter
run to help Illinois win the Lee
Calhoun Invitational. He then
finished third in the same event
at the Big Ten/SEC Challenge.
Fellow redshirt freshman
Luke Carroll hopes to continue
the success he found in last
year’s outdoor season as well.
Carroll contributed to the
team’s victory at the Drake
Relays in April by helping
the 3200-meter relay take
second. He also ran the 1,500
at the Big Ten Championships
before qualifying to run the
same event in the NCAA
West Preliminary round of
Championships at the end of
May.

Soccer
Meegan Johnston is already
making noise for the Illinois
soccer team. A midfielder out
of Carmel Catholic High School
in Mundelein, Ill., Johnston
finds herself contributing
early in the season. In a 5-4
overtime thriller against
Louisville, Johnston netted
the game-winning goal to give
the Illini their first win of the
season. The Daily Illini named
her Illini of the Week for her
overtime heroics.

Women’s cross-country
With eight freshmen joining
the ranks of the women’s crosscountry team, first-year head
coach Scott Jones can describe
his team in one word: young.
All eight women hail from
Illinois and have probably
competed against one another
in sectional and state meets.
Many, like Courtney Ackerman
and Ellie Palacios, boast
podium finishes at big-time
IHSA competitions and allconference and all-state team
accolades.

BY DAN ESCALONA
STAFF WRITER

“The preseason
rankings mean
nothing if we don’t
play well. We just
have to get off to
a good start to the
season and just get
better every week.”

hey say recruiting is
half the battle. Without
strategy, confidence and
charisma, coaches aren’t
going to nab those four- and
five-star high school athletes
around which their teams are
built.
There are websites purely
devoted to ranking and keeping
up with the nation’s top
prospective student athletes.
Rivals, 24/7 Sports, Scout.com,
even ESPN and the NCAA keep
tabs on the goings on of prep
sports for recruiting purposes.
But without all this emphasis
on things such as where John
Groce took Quentin Snyder on
his official visit — Original
Pancake House in Champaign
— we wouldn’t have the group
of talented athletes that we do.
Illinois coaching staffs work
year-round to assure that they
have the best teams possible,
returners and rookies alike.
So let’s look at these latest
additions. It’s fall of 2013 and
we have a brand new group of
Illini babies dying to make a
name for themselves.

Volleyball

FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINI

Illinois doubles team Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon react during the NCAA Championships at the Khan
Outdoor Tennis Complex on May 23.
season when we were paired
up, but we really clicked at the
end of the season,” Hiltzik said.
“We’re both pretty comfortable
playing together, and it’s just a
matter building our chemistry
back to what it was at the end of
last season.”
The pair played together often
last season and had a team-best
record of 14-5 — though they
did not play a nationally ranked
opponent. Both expect to have
higher-quality draws this season,
and thus understand they both
have specific aspects of their
game that must improve.
“For Alex, he has to get better
with his serve in order for me
to get opportunities at the net,”
Hiltzik said. “I need to play a lot

better around the net and finish
my volleys more consistently.”
Dancer is also still looking
for a slot to place junior Farris
Gosea, who found most success
last season when paired with
Tim Kopiniski — a duo that went
10-2 a season ago. While Dancer
knows Gosea has played his best
doubles tennis with Kopinski, he
stills sees a fluid situation as he
notes that Gosea is apt to play
well with whomever he is paired
with.
“Certainly
Farris
and
Tim have good chemistry
together, but I’m still willing to
experiment with pairing Farris
up some of our other guys like
Brian (Page), Julian (Childers)
and Blake (Bazarnik),” Dancer

said. “Farris has a propensity to
play well in doubles at times, its
just a matter of finding the right
fit for him.”
With the expectations of
the upcoming season looming
large, the Illini hope to see their
doubles play translate into better
team outcomes.
“Playing well in doubles can
sometimes be the difference
between exceeding expectations
as a team or falling short,” Jesse
said. “All of us have something
to prove in doubles, and we’re
excited to get back out there and
prove ourselves.”

Dan can be reached at
descalo2@dailyillini.com and
@danescalona77.

Maddie Mayers is going to be
a household name for Illinois
volleyball fans. In her Illinois
debut at the Long Beach State
Mizuno Invitational a week ago,
the redshirt freshman earned
Big Ten Freshman of the Week
honors for her performance. She
had 29 kills and 20 blocks over
the course of the tournament
and helped Illinois go 2-1 on the
weekend, its only loss coming
to host team Long Beach State
University. Mayers was also
selected to the all-tournament
team along with veteran
teammates Jennifer Beltran and
MVP Jocelynn Birks.
Illinois fans should be excited
about the futures of all these
athletes. All the greats were
once freshmen. This is when we
discover new talent. It’s where
breakout stars are made.
Seeing Meegan Johnston and
Maddie Mayers dominate as
underclassmen is the reason
why we stalk recruiting
websites and online message
boards so religiously.
So become a fan of these
rookies now. They’ll be frontpage news before you know it.

Aryn is a senior in LAS. She
can be reached at braun17@
dailyilini.com. Follow her on
Twitter @ArynBraun.

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Monday, September 9, 2013

Trestman gets
win in NFL debut
BY FRED MITCHELL
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Chicago Bears
made Marc Trestman a winner in his
NFL head-coaching debut Sunday,
rallying to beat the Cincinnati Bengals
24-21 at Soldier Field.
Brandon Marshall caught a 19-yard
pass from Jay Cutler for the go-ahead
touchdown with 7:58 left to play. It
capped an eight-play, 81-yard drive that
featured a successful fourth-and-one
conversion.
Matt Forte scored from a yard out
with 3:22 left in the third period as the
Bears pulled to within 21-17.
Cutler was 21-of-33 for 242 yards, two
TDs and an interception for a passer
rating of 93.2. He was not sacked.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It felt good,â&#x20AC;? Cutler said of his first
game in Trestmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Early on
we were a little bit off kilter, which is
fine. We battled through it. ... Plenty for
us to clean up but we knew we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
going to be perfect. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be
perfect, we just had to be good enough
to beat Cincy and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we did.â&#x20AC;?
Marshall had eight catches for 104
yards. Forte had 19 carries for 50 yards
and four receptions for 41 yards.
The Bears defense had its hands full
all day with A.J. Green, who caught two
first-half touchdown passes and drew
a pass interference penalty on the first
drive of the third quarter that set up a
BenJarvus Green-Ellis 5-yard TD run
for a 21-10 Bengals lead.
At that point, nothing seemed to be
going the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; way, and Trestman
credited his team afterward for
hanging tough.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We kept fighting through it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
a credit to each and every guy,â&#x20AC;?
Trestman, who reportedly was handed

the game ball by linebacker Lance
Briggs, told WBBM-AM. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were
good teammates to each other today.
They stuck together and were able to
find a way to win the game.â&#x20AC;?
Charles Tillman committed the
penalty that covered 34 yards as the
Bengals marched 80 yards in 12 plays.
After Green scored his second
touchdown of the day on a 45-yard pass
from Andy Dalton to give the Bengals a
14-7 lead with 3:01 left before halftime,
Robbie Gould nailed a career-best and
team-record 58-yard field goal to make
it 14-10 at intermission.
Green also scored on a 2-yard TD pass
from Dalton with 2:38 remaining in the
first quarter. It capped an impressive
nine-play, 97-yard drive.
The Bears had drawn first blood, as
quarterback Cutler hit new tight end
Martellus Bennett on an eight-yard
touchdown pass for a 7-0 lead with just
under 10 minutes to play in the first
quarter. The touchdown call stood after
a review.
The seven-play, 36-yard scoring
drive was set up by a Charles Tillman
interception of a Dalton pass.
Cutler completed 10 of 19 passes for
70 yards and one TD in the first half.
He had a passer rating of 78.8. Forte
had 27 yards rushing on 11 carries (2.5
average).
The Bengals had 245 total yards; the
Bears had 97.
Trestman made his debut as an NFL
head coach with the Bears after serving
in that capacity with the Montreal
Alouettes in the Canadian Football
League for five years.
The Bears entered the game with a
17-3 record in home-openers over the
last 20 years.

NUCCIO DINUZZO CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Bears cornerback Charles Tillman intercepts a ball intended for Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green during the second quarter of the Bears
24-21 victory at Soldier Field in Chicago on Sunday. Tillman had two interceptions in the win.

C H IC AG O
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
C h a rle s
Tillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dressing stall was
empty and the 11th-year
cornerback was gone from
the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; locker room when
it opened to the media after
Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 24 -21 win over
the Bengals. So, for now, it
remains a mystery as to how
Tillman processed his eventful
afternoon.
Included: two interceptions;
a full defensive series spent

on the sidelines working to get
hydrated; and a whole flurry of
sequences in which he was on
the wrong end of the highlight
reel for Bengals All-Pro wide
receiver A.J. Green.
So what can be made of
Tillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peanut is a pro,â&#x20AC;? fellow
corner Tim Jennings assessed.
T i l l m a nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
fi rst- qu a r ter
interception â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on a play in which
he shrewdly undercut a Green
slant route â&#x20AC;&#x201D; gave the Bears
possession at the Bengalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 36, a

takeaway the offense converted
into a touchdown and a 7-0 lead.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;To start off the game, that
was a big momentum boost,â&#x20AC;?
safety Chris Conte said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It
helps the confidence across the
board.â&#x20AC;?
In the second quarter, Tillman
recorded his second pick on a
pass that ricocheted off Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
hands. Not only was Tillman
there to capitalize, he added a
nifty 41-yard return.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope that not just the
people watching on TV but the

organization knows what type
of gem No. 33 is,â&#x20AC;? linebacker
Lance Briggs said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He battled
one of the elite receivers. ... But
to get the ball out and create
turnovers, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
all about. And Peanut is the
pinnacle of it.â&#x20AC;?
The glowing praise of Tillman
was easier to deliver given
the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final result. But
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to ignore the
difficulty Tillman had with
Green (nine catches, 162 yards,
two TDs) all afternoon.

Green scored the Bengalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
first touchdown, a 2-yard grab
in which he buckled Tillman
inside then strolled alone
toward the right pylon to haul in
Andy Daltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pass. That came
three snaps after Green beat
Tillman to a 50/50 ball up the
right sideline for a 42-yard gain.
In the third quarter, the
biggest play of a Bengalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
touchdown drive that provided
a 21-10 lead came when Green
blew past Tillman and drew
a 34-yard pass-interference

penalty as the corner fought to
recover.
The headaches involved in
controlling Green were evident
all day. But the Bears again
created enough tide-turning
takeaways to prevail, including
the pair by Tillman.
Said Conte: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not ...
going to change (our) defense
because of one player. So really
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just got to do what we do
and be aware of him and make
plays when they come to us. And
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we did.â&#x20AC;?

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Illini defense comes through when it counts
After a week full of speculation
and doubt spurred by the Illini
defense surrendering 407 yards
and 34 points to FCS opponent
Southern Illinois, the Illini again
allowed more than 400 yards in
week two.
Yet, after both contests, the Illini defense hung its hat on what
it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give up: easy red zone
touchdowns.
Clinging to an eight-point lead
against the Salukis, the Illini were backed up to their own
3-yard line with less than a minute left; however, Southern ran
out of downs when quarterback
Kory Faulkner sailed a pass out
of the back of the end zone on
fourth down â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clinching the victory for the Orange and Blue.
Against Cincinnati on Saturday, the Illini defense again
found itself backed into its own
goal posts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this time with a
21-point lead right before halftime. After seven plays inside
the 10, aided by a pass interference penalty, the Bearcats
punched home a touchdown with
just eight seconds remaining in
the half.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It hurt going into halftime,â&#x20AC;?
linebacker Mason Monheim said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really thought we were going
to get that stop.â&#x20AC;?
The Bearcats notched a quick
field goal right after halftime
to bring the score to 21-10, as
well as to bring back demons
the Illini have experienced with
second half collapses. After an
Illini three-and-out, the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
second in as many possessions,
Cincinnati quarterback Munchie
Legaux connected on passes of
11, 14 and 32 yards to bring the
Bearcats to the 4 yard line.

The Bearcats plunged up the
middle for three yards to put the
ball at the one before the Illini
locked up. Jonathan Brown and
Austin Teitsma stuffed a run for
no gain on second down. On third
down, Legauxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pass was deflected at the line, bringing up a door-die fourth down.
Defending the north end zone,
Brown and other defenders
turned and rallied the Block I
student section to a fever pitch.
On fourth down, Legaux scrambled left and was hit right at the
goal line by Earnest Thomas III,
mustered a second effort and
appeared to break into the end
zone before Monheim and Mike
Svetina barreled into the pile to
force him back. Legaux didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
have the ball after the scrum
cleared, but the Bearcats were
celebrating nonetheless.
The officials ruled a touchdown on the field, and during the
video review, two camera angles
would determine the outcome of
the play, though it may as well
have been the game. Both officials and fans strained their eyes
to try and catch a glimmer of
â&#x20AC;&#x153;indisputable video evidenceâ&#x20AC;?
one way or another, but no obvious call was to be found.
After the review, head referee John Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill announced
that Legaux had indeed fumbled
before the goal line and since
the ball was advanced into the
end zone illegally on the fumble,
Illinois would control the ball at
its own 1-inch line.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was huge. Our defense
was great in the red zone all
day long,â&#x20AC;? quarterback Nathan
Scheelhasse said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had them
down there six, seven, eight
plays down before the half and
I think they did everything they

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coach Tommy Tuberville said.
Brendon Kay, who had played
some snaps earlier in the game,
took over quarterbacking duties.
But the Illinois defense was
too much. Linebacker Jonathan
Brown finished the game with 14
tackles and half a sack. Monheim
added another 10 tackles and a
sack of his own.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people counted us out,â&#x20AC;?
Brown said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we went out and
proved that we can go win football games.â&#x20AC;?
The victory was Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first
win against an FBS opponent
since it beat Western Michigan
in Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first game as head
coach on Sept. 1, 2012.

ed, making the final 10 yards
of Cincinnatiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drives an utter
pain.
This is exactly what we
expected â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from Cincinnati.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are who you thought
they were.â&#x20AC;?
Those arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the words of
Tim Beckman, who was surprisingly even-keeled after the
biggest win in his tenure at
Illinois. I half expected him to
begin his press conference with
a loud, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In your face, jerks!â&#x20AC;?
Instead, he gracefully congratulated the team and
chalked it up as nothing more
than one win. For him, Saturday may have brought about
his first feeling of relief since
agreeing to come to Illinois. He
earned it with the way his team
played.

BY STEPHEN BOURBON
STAFF WRITER

Sean can be reached at
sphammo2@dailyillini.com
and @sean_hammond.

DARYL QUITALIG THE DAILY ILLINI

Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Zane Petty (21) tackles Cincinnatiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anthony McClung at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The defense allowed 456 yards but only 17 points.
could to get into the end zone ...
We knew they were in trouble
because they had already shot
off a lot of bullets at that point.â&#x20AC;?
The rest was a foregone conclusion. The Illini offense rediscovered its mojo and plowed 99
yards over 12 plays to a touch-

down and completing the 14
point swing. The Bearcats never
recovered, and the Illini would
pile up points of their own en
route to the 45-17 victory.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really
proud of my guys for,â&#x20AC;? Brown
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had 400 yards, but

we stood up when it mattered.â&#x20AC;?
Even after allowing 456
yards, with 308 coming through
the air, the Illini defense â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for
the second week in a row â&#x20AC;&#x201D; did
just enough to tally the only
number they care about: a second win in as many games.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to have that mentality, that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to
get into our end zone,â&#x20AC;? Monheim
said.

Nathan Scheelhaase hit 11
different receivers and notched
four touchdown passes to back
up the record-breaking performance he had last week,
which had been thought of as
merely an experienced quarterback taking advantage of
lesser competition. Ryan Lankford only caught one pass for 10
yards, but accrued 46 more and
a touchdown on three carries.
After the game, he kept being
asked how â&#x20AC;&#x153;funâ&#x20AC;? it was to run
those plays.
It was very fun. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Illinois offense was very
fun.
Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win was Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really even Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win.
It was offensive coordinator
Bill Cubitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; his offense generating points on a consistent
basis in a way fans of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Illini forgot to be possible. It
was defensive coordinator Tim

Banksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; his defense causing a
fumble when it mattered most,
turning the Bearcats away at
the one-inch line. That play
stands as, without question, the
biggest play of the Beckman
era.
It was Scheelhaaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; the
senior couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep his head
above water last year in an
offense that plain didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work.
Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already surpassed his 2012
touchdown total.
It was the defenseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; after giving up 34 points to Southern Illinois last week, allowed half that
to a much better team.
Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been known as
Thomasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lesser hire, but Thomas
makes a good point when he says
turning around a football team
to a basketball team is turning
around an aircraft carrier to a
speed boat. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that this
win is just one win, and that Illinois just happened to have the
right stuff to thwart Cincinnati.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also possible that with
this win, Beckman has earned
the benefit of our ponderous collective doubt. Maybe heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earned
a few years to implement his
players and his system. Maybe
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found the right man in Cubit
to lead his offense. Maybe Illinois football could be big again.
After coming in with high
expectations surrounding him
last year, Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team was
stunningly bad. This year, with
exceedingly low hopes placed in
it, Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team is no longer
stunned, and had its wits about
it to send a clear message Saturday: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know this football team.â&#x20AC;?
And we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know â&#x20AC;&#x201D; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
glad not to â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just
watch.

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Eliot is a senior in Media.
He can be reached at sill2@
dailyillini.com. Follow him
on Twitter @EliotTweet.

Stephen can be reached at
sbourbo2@dailyillini.com
and @steve_bourbon.

SEAL TEAM
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have an advantage over
a lot of the teams weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked
with: great energy, great chemistry, they really seem to care
about themselves and care about
each other and really want to
win,â&#x20AC;? he said.
With the season approaching,
Groce said he could see his team
growing closer and more comfortable with one another.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can see a huge difference between where we were
in June and where we are now,
here in September,â&#x20AC;? Groce said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re much closer and obviously, I think that the SEAL Team
Physical Training has accelerated that at a high level.â&#x20AC;?

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